Finger and thumb nail buffer



Oct. 25, 1927.

M. P. BEACH FINGER AND THUMB NAIL BUFFER Filed Dec. 25. 1926 INVENTOR@oq y eac/i BY W Y I ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 25, 1927.

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FINGER AND THUMB NAIL BUFFER.

Application filed December 23, 1926. Serial No. 156,616.

This invention relates to finger and thumb nail buffers. Its object isto produce a compact, flexible buffer, which can be convenientlycarried, if desired, in vanity cases or small hand bags, and which, whenin use, can be placed first on one hand and then on the other, as asupport for the back of the buffer while the thumb and finger nails ofthe hand on which the buffer has not been placed are polished. My newbuffer may be made in various forms and sizes.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof and illustrating thebest form of the invention now known to me:

Fig. l is a face plan view of thebufler.

Fig. 2 shows the buffer on a hand in one position of use.

In the illustrated form of the invention, the buffer 1 is made ofsuitable, flexible material, such as chamois skin, for example. Itcomprises, at its front end, a finger tip receiving cap 2 formed byfolding an end portion of the material upon itself and hemstitching thesuperposed side margins together at 3, 3. The bufl'er is preferablysufficiently wide to cover two fingers the tips of which are received inthe cap, and sufliciently long to extend along the palm of the hand toits wrist band 4, which is shown with two projecting ends that may beadjustably coupled by putting one end through a slide buckle 5 securedto the other end. The wrist band is preferably made of ribbon stitchedat 6 to and across the wrist end of thebuifer. The wrist band may belocated at different positions along the wrist to keep the buflerlengthwise straight and smooth upon the hand, between the finger cap andthe wrist band. Polishing powder may be placed on the buffer face asindicated at 7.

The buffer may be also placed on the back of the hand, if so desired;and it may be made in various other forms, if preferred, the cap beingsized and shaped to receive more or less of the length of any desireddigit or digits: In any case, a portion of the hand serves as asemi-rigid support for the buffer when it is in use and the hand isstraightened. In use, the wrist band is tightened upon a wrist of theuser, the digit receiving cap or member and the tightened wrist bandthen cooperating not only to hold the flexible, extended intermediateportion straight and smooth upon the hand as a semi-rigid support, butalso to prevent the flexible, intermediate portion from becomingtransversely wrinkled or ridged under alternating, nail bufling strokesof the other hand. The adjustable wrist band adapted to be tightenedaround the wrist when the intermediate, flexible material is extendedfrom end to end, is an important element for the present article ofmanufacture, for otherwise the bufling strokes would wrinkle o1 ridgethe flexible, intermediate portion and the user would be liable toinjure the nail being buffed by striking it against or catch ing it onthe wrinkled, ridged, or nonsmooth portions of the intermediate portion.

What I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a flexible, digit nail buffer foruse on one hand while the nails of the other hand are being buifed, thebuffer having a digit receiving member, an intermediate flexible portionfor use as a digit nail bufi'er when flat and smooth on a hand of theuser, and an adjustable, tightenable wrist band for then engaging awrist of the user, said member and wrist band cooperating, when thebuffer is in use, to prevent the flexible, intermediate portion frombecoming transversely wrinkled under bufling strokes by the user; saidintermediate portion, when in use, being supported by the users hand.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a flexible, digit nail buflier foruse on one hand while the nails of the other hand are being bufied, thebuffer having a digit engaging cap, an adjustable wrist band and anintermediate portion surfaceable with nail polishing powder; said capbeing formed by a portion of the buflermaterial and thereto opposedmaterial, the margins of the capforming materials being stitchedtogether; and the wrist band being formed of a separate piece ofmaterial stitched to and across the wrist end of the buffer and havingprojecting, connectible ends.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a flexible, digit nail buffer foruse on one hand while the nails of the other hand are being buffed, thebuffer having a digit receiving member, an intermediate flexible portionfor use as a digit nail buffer, when flat and smooth on a hand of theuser, and an ad justable, tightenable wrist band for then engaging aWrist of the user, said member and Wrist band cooperating, when thebufi'er is in use, to prevent the flexible, intermediate portion frombecoming transversely wrinkled under buffing strokes by the user;

said intermediateportion, when in use, being supported by the usershand; and said digit MALLY PEA'BODY BEACH.

